Gen 16:2, “so she
said to Abram, "The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep
with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her." Abram agreed to what Sarai said.”

Dear
brothers and sisters,

Loving greetings in the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ.Today let us
meditate about the importance of taking
a fair decision as per the knowledge and understanding what God has given
unto us.When we read
about the story of Abraham right from the day God called him, He spoke to
him many times about his own offspring
what He will give to him.

First, God himself appeared to him and promised
unto him the land as in Gen 12:7, “The LORD appeared to Abram and
said, "To your offspring I will
give this land." So he built an altar there to the LORD, who had
appeared to him.”

Then secondly, God said to him after Lot departed from him that no one can count his
offspring as in Gen 13:16, “I
will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone
could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.”

Thirdly, God spoke to him when he asked God
that he has to accept the Eliezer as his heir since
he is not having his own child as in Gen 15:2 & 3, “But
Abram said, "O Sovereign LORD, what can you give me since I remain
childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer
of Damascus?" And Abram said, "You have given me no children; so
a servant in my household will be my heir." To this God immediately
answered the son who is going to come from your own body will be the heir
as in Gen 15:4, “Then the word of the LORD came to him: "This
man will not be your heir, but a son coming from your own body will be your
heir."To make him believe
God took him out and made him to count the stars and said more than this I
will bless your offspring as in Gen 15:5, “He took him outside and
said, "Look up at the heavens and count the stars--if indeed you can
count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring
be."

We cannot say now, his wife Sarai had that much direct contact with God and had the
promise, vision and revelations of the lord to believe for a miracle and an
offspring.Still in spite of
all these direct revelations he had enjoyed from God he ignored what God
promised to him and listened to his wife. If Abraham would have believed
God definitely he would have refused this proposal and convinced his wife
and then waited little more for the time of God.Today because of this one mistake of
Abraham more than one out five in this present world are his offspring
through Ishmael and they are even today fighting with the Israelites the
children of Isaac. Not only that, many scholars say that Abraham did not
have any direct communication or the visit of God for nearly thirteen years
because of this mistake of not being loyal to the revelation God gave him
and choosing to listening to his wife rather than God in spite of all the confirmations
God gave to him about the child.

Definitely when Christ comes as a Judge we
will be judged as per our own understanding and the revelations we received
from God. So we must be very faithful to the knowledge what we have
received from God.When Adam
listened to his wife and he ate the fruit and the same way when Abraham
obeyed his wife he took Hagar and beget Ishmael.And if we also remain untruthful to
the knowledge what God has given unto us we will also act in the same
manner.

May the lord help us today to take a bold
decision in the light of the word of God we know and remain faithful to God
and the revelation we have received from him.The bible says the man is the head of
the family so they cannot blame their wife before God for the fault. The psalmist says when a man walks as
per the word of God his wife will bear fruits within his house as in Psa 128:1 & 2,. Amen.

(Mat 13:11 NIV)He replied, "The knowledge of
the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to
them.

(Luke 1:77 NIV) to give his people the
knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins,

(Luke 8:10 NIV)He said, "The knowledge of the
secrets of the kingdom
of God has been given
to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, "'though seeing,
they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.'

(Luke 11:52 NIV)"Woe to you experts in the law,
because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not
entered, and you have hindered those who were entering."

(Acts 5:2 NIV)With his wife's full knowledge he
kept back part of the money for himself, but brought the rest and put it at
the apostles' feet.

(Acts 18:24 NIV)Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria,
came to Ephesus.
He was a learned man, with a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures.

(Rom 1:28 NIV)Furthermore, since they did not
think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a
depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

Decision
To Make

Prov4:13Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; guard it well, for
it is your life.

Things To
Thank God

Psa9:9The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times
of trouble.